Ilir

Ilir already has a dairy cow with a baby calf, and at the moment needs a loan to add another one.

Ilir lives in rural central Albania and is thirty-four years old and married with three children, ranging in age between eleven and two. His main activity for the past fifteen years has been agriculture and livestock, and has also been selling fresh produce to locals.

Also, in Greece he worked on and off as a landscaper and he very much enjoyed that, but now he plans to stay in his village full time and expand his activity by adding more animals and building a stable.

Additional Information

More information about this loan

This loan is part of VisionFund Albania's value chain project designed to address the needs of extremely poor clients. The project has selected 90 clients from Area Development Projects and local economic empowerment projects run by WorldVision Albania (WVA) to serve the very poor. It will focus on livestock and agriculture financing, technical assistance, entrepreneurial skills training and expanding market access for clients' products. Importantly, interest rate payments will be covered by WVA. By supporting this loan, you are providing opportunity to some of the poorest people in rural Albania who have little to no access to credit, even through basic microfinance institutions.

About VisionFund Albania

VisionFund Albania is a micro-finance subsidiary of child hunger nonprofit World Vision International. Striving to improve child welfare, the organization offers a variety of loan products designed for rural, traditionally underserved clients and their families. These products include agriculture, business and household improvement loans, as well as "integration loans" targeted to help the poorest, most vulnerable Albanian households acquire value chain resources.

While VFA is focused on the empowerment of the poor overall, it pays special attention to women. About 60% of loans to entrepreneurs on Kiva go to women.